Geuda Springs, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Geuda Springs, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Geuda Springs lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Geuda Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Geuda Springs — the short answer
Geuda Springs, Kansas: USDA zone 7a, about 228 days between hard freezes, across 220 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~228
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 220 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 7a is Geuda Springs's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Geuda Springs's 228-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Geuda Springs
Each reading below is measured for Geuda Springs itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGeuda Springs runs about 228 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredGeuda Springs sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Geuda Springs is in
Geuda Springs sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Geuda Springs's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sumner County.
What Grows in Geuda Springs
Every plant below cleared Geuda Springs's own zone 7a and its 228-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Geuda Springs?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Geuda Springs
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Geuda Springs. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 34S 03E 07BBB 01Nitrate · 1100 ft
- 34S 03E 07BAA 01Nitrate · 0.5 mi
- 34S 02E 02BAA 01Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- 34S 03E 04BBB 01Nitrate · 2.4 mi
- 33S 02E 26BDD 01Nitrate · 3.2 mi
- 33S 02E 25BBB 01Nitrate · 3.3 mi
- 33S 03E 34CDD 01Nitrate · 3.7 mi
- 33S 03E 34DCC 01Nitrate · 3.8 mi
- 34S 03E 23CBB 01Nitrate · 4.8 mi
- 34S 02E 17CCC 01Nitrate · 5.1 mi
- HALLIBURTON SERVICESUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- 34S 03E 26BAD 01Nitrate · 5.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Geuda Springs's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Geuda Springs.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Geuda Springs
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Geuda Springs
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Geuda Springs, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Geuda Springs — Nitrate (104 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (15 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Geuda Springs
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Geuda Springs average
Your land is one point inside Geuda Springs
Everything above resolves to Geuda Springs as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 220 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at city scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Geuda Springs Average
Geuda Springs Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Geuda Springs
- ●One soil character for all of Geuda Springs
- ●Frost dates read at Geuda Springs's scale: Mar 27 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Geuda Springs's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Geuda Springs
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Geuda Springs, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Geuda Springs averages can't show:
We read public map data around Geuda Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Geuda Springs average
How we know this about Geuda Springs
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Geuda Springs’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Geuda Springs
When does frost risk typically end in Geuda Springs?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Geuda Springs typically lands around Mar 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 17.
When is the first frost in Geuda Springs?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Geuda Springs typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 228 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Geuda Springs?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Geuda Springs sees about 228 frost-free days — roughly Mar 27 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 17 to Oct 27, about 193 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Geuda Springs?
The federal record around Geuda Springs is a meaningful one — 222 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (104), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Geuda Springs?
From about Oct 11 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Geuda Springs's scale — its 7a band and its 228-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Geuda Springs's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Geuda Springs’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Geuda Springs's own scale — its own ~228-day season between 28°F freezes, the 220 acres it covers and 222 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Geuda Springs's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Geuda Springs's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 27 and Nov 10 and the ~228-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 222 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Geuda Springs, the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Geuda Springs's boundary and the 220 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~228-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Geuda Springs's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Geuda Springs's 220 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sumner County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sumner County
- The growing challenges every Kansas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Kansas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Sumner County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Geuda Springs's 220 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Geuda Springs you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 220 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Geuda Springs-wide figureread your own land →